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    Wilfing: The new internet black

Computer users have been furnished with yet another acronym, this time one that describes those who spend time idly surfing the web.

By David Crookes, 9 May 2007 at 22:18

So what's the problem? Maybe it's just a symptom of modern life, a chance to relax while doing, seeing and buying as much as possible in the short amount of leisure time we claim to have.

But whatever it is, there is some good news: we're likely to eventually grow out of wilfing. While those under the age of 25 are most likely to wilf, internet users who are 55 or over are three times less likely. So just another 25 years left to pack in my wilfing then. Oh look, a news article about fish...

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